Kariuki Njenga M, Nderitu L, Ledermann JP, Ndirangu A, Logue CH, Kelly CH, Sang R, Sergon K, Breiman R, Powers AM, 2008. Tracking epidemic Chikungunya virus into the Indian Ocean from East Africa. J Gen Virol 89: 2754–2760.
Volk SM, Chen R, Tsetsarkin KA, Adams AP, Garcia TI, Sall AA, Nasar F, Schuh AJ, Holmes EC, Higgs S, Maharaj PD, Brault AC, Weaver SC, 2010. Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses of Chikungunya virus reveal independent emergences of recent epidemics and various evolutionary rates. J Virol 84: 6497–6504.
Tsetsarkin KA, Weaver SC, 2011. Sequential adaptative mutantions enhance efficient vector switching by Chikungunya virus and its epidemic emergence. PLoS Pathog 7: e1002412.
de Lamballerie X, Leroy E, Charrel RN, Ttsetsarkin K, Higgs S, Gould EA, 2008. Chikungunya virus adapts to tiger mosquito via evolutionary convergence: a sign of things to come? Virol J 5: 33.
Dash PK, Parida MM, Santhosh SR, Verma SK, Tripathi NK, Ambuj NK, Saxena S, Gupta P, Chaudhary N, Babu M, Lakshmi JP, Mamidi V, Subhalaxmi N, Lakshmana MVS, Rao PV, Sekhar K, 2007. East Central South African genotype as the causative agent in reemergence of Chikungunya outbreak in India, 2008. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 519–527.
Parola P, de Lamballerie X, Jourdan J, Rovery C, Vaillant V, Minodier P, Brouqui P, Flahault A, Raoult D, Charrel RN, 2006. Novel Chikungunya virus variant in travelers returning from Indian Ocean islands. Emerg Infect Dis 12: 1493–1499.
Vega-Rúa A, Zouache K, Girod R, Failloux AB, Lourenço-de-Oliveira R, 2014. High level of vector competence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from ten American countries as a crucial factor in the spread of Chikungunya virus. J Virol 88: 6294–6306.
Leparc-Goffart I, Nougairede A, Cassadou S, Prat C, de Lamballerie X, 2014. Chikungunya in the Americas. Lancet 383: 514.
Van Bortel W, Dorleans F, Rosine J, Blateau A, Rousset D, Matheus S, Leparc-Goffart I, Flusin O, Prat CM, Césaire R, Najioullah F, Ardillon V, Balleydier E, Carvalho L, Lemaítre A, Noël H, Servas V, Six C, Zurbaran M, Léon L, Guinard A, van den Kerkhof J, Henry M, Fanoy E, Braks M, Reimerink J, Swaan C, Georges R, Brooks L, Freedman J, Sudre B, Zeller H, 2014. Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean region, December 2013 to March 2014, and the significance for Europe. Euro Surveill 19: 20759.
Santiago GA, Vergne E, Quiles Y, Cosme J, Vázquez J, Medina JF, Medina F, Colón C, Margolis H, Muñoz-Jordán JL, 2013. Analytical and clinical performance of the CDC real time RT-PCR assay for detection and typing of dengue virus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 7: e23.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2007. Update: Chikungunya fever diagnosed among international travelers–United States, 2006. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 56: 276–277.
Lanciotti RS, Kosoy OL, Laven JJ, Panella AJ, Velez JO, Lambert AJ, Campbell GL, 2007. Chikungunya virus in US travelers returning from India, 2006. Emerg Infect Dis 13: 764–767.
Beaty BJ, Calisher CH, Shope RE, 1995. Arboviruses. Lennete ET, Lennete DA, eds. Diagbostic Procedures for Viral, Rickettsial and Chlamydial Infection, 7th Ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 189–212.
Requena-Méndez A, García C, Aldasoro E, Vicente JA, Martínez MJ, Pérez-Molina JA, Calvo-Cano A, Franco L, Parrón I, Molina A, Ruiz M, Álvarez J, Sánchez-Seco MP, Gascón J, 2014. Cases of Chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning to Spain from Haiti or Dominican Republic, April–June 2014. Euro Surveill 19: 20853.
Cauchemez S, Ledrans M, Poletto C, Quenel P, de Valk H, Colizza V, Boëlle PY, 2014. Local and regional spread of Chikungunya fever in the Americas. Euro Surveill 19: 20854.
Sanchez-Seco MP, Rosario D, Quiroz E, Guzman G, Tenorio A, 2001. A generic nested- RT-PCR followed by sequencing for detection and identification of members of the Alphavirus genus. J Virol Methods 95: 153–161.
Edgar RC, 2004. MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity. BMC Bioinformatics 5: 113.
Tamura K, Stecher G, Peterson D, Filipski A, Kumar S, 2013. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Mol Biol Evol 30: 2725–2729.
PAHO, 2014. Fiebre de Chikungunya en las Americas, 29 de Diciembre de 2014. Available at: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?Itemid=40931.
Borgherini G, Poubeau P, Staikowsky F, Lory M, Le Moullec N, Becquart JP, Wengling C, Michault A, Paganin F, 2007. Outbreak of Chikungunya on Reunion Island: early clinical and laboratory features in 157 adult patients. Clin Infect Dis 44: 1401–1407.
Simon F, Havelle E, Oliver M, Leparc-Goffart I, Marimoutou C, 2011. Chikungunya virus infection. Curr Infect Dis Rep 13: 218–228.
Lanciotti RS, Valadere AM, 2014. Transcontinental movement of Asia genotype Chikungunya virus. Emerg Infect Dis 20: 1400–1402.
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that was only endemic in Africa and south Asia until 2005 and 2006, when the virus spread into the Indian Ocean islands, Europe, and Asia. Autochthonous CHIKV transmission in the Caribbean islands was reported in December of 2013. In Panama, two febrile cases were detected in May of 2014: one traveling from Haiti, and the other traveling from the Dominican Republic. After other imported cases were detected, the first autochthonous case was reported in August of the same year. We detected CHIKV viral RNA and isolated the virus from serum samples. The phylogenetic analysis of the two imported isolates and one autochthonous CHIKV isolate indicated that the viruses belong to the Asian lineage in the Caribbean clade and are related to viruses recently identified in Saint Martin island, British Virgin Islands, China, and the Philippines. Although the circulating CHIKV lineages in the Americas have not yet been described, our results suggest that the Asian lineage is circulating in most American countries reporting autochthonous infection.
Financial support: This study received financial support from the surveillance program of the Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology. J.-P.C. is paid by Columbus University Contract CU-VIP-P-003-2014; S.L.-V. is paid by Secretaría Nacional de Ciencias, Tecnología e Inovación Panamá (SENACYT) Contract 71-2012-4-CAP11-003.
Authors' addresses: Yamilka Díaz, Dimelza Arauz, Ilka Guerra, Julio Cisneros, Sandra López-Vergès, and Brechla A. Moreno, Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama, E-mails: yamilkavirus@gmail.com, dimarauz@gmail.com, ilkaguerra@yahoo.com, jygcisneros@cwpanama.net, lvsandral@gmail.com, and bmoreno@gorgas.gob.pa. Jean-Paul Carrera, Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama, and School of Medicine, Columbus University, Panama City, Panama, E-mail: jean1450@gmail.com. Lizbeth Cerezo, Ana Margarita Botello, and Lourdes Moreno, National Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, Panama City, Panama, E-mails: cerezolizbeth@gmail.com, anmbo@yahoo.com.mx, and lmorenocastillo@yahoo.com. Blas Armién, Department of Research in Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama, E-mail: blasarmien@yahoo.com.mx. Ana Belén Arauz, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama City, Panama, E-mail: anabelenarauz@gmail.com. Vladimir Gonzalez, Policentro de Parque Lefevre, Panama City, Panama, E-mail: drvagg@hotmail.com. Yamileth López, Centro de Salud de Rio Abajo, Panama City, Panama, E-mail: yamilopez11@hotmail.com.
Kariuki Njenga M, Nderitu L, Ledermann JP, Ndirangu A, Logue CH, Kelly CH, Sang R, Sergon K, Breiman R, Powers AM, 2008. Tracking epidemic Chikungunya virus into the Indian Ocean from East Africa. J Gen Virol 89: 2754–2760.
Volk SM, Chen R, Tsetsarkin KA, Adams AP, Garcia TI, Sall AA, Nasar F, Schuh AJ, Holmes EC, Higgs S, Maharaj PD, Brault AC, Weaver SC, 2010. Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses of Chikungunya virus reveal independent emergences of recent epidemics and various evolutionary rates. J Virol 84: 6497–6504.
Tsetsarkin KA, Weaver SC, 2011. Sequential adaptative mutantions enhance efficient vector switching by Chikungunya virus and its epidemic emergence. PLoS Pathog 7: e1002412.
de Lamballerie X, Leroy E, Charrel RN, Ttsetsarkin K, Higgs S, Gould EA, 2008. Chikungunya virus adapts to tiger mosquito via evolutionary convergence: a sign of things to come? Virol J 5: 33.
Dash PK, Parida MM, Santhosh SR, Verma SK, Tripathi NK, Ambuj NK, Saxena S, Gupta P, Chaudhary N, Babu M, Lakshmi JP, Mamidi V, Subhalaxmi N, Lakshmana MVS, Rao PV, Sekhar K, 2007. East Central South African genotype as the causative agent in reemergence of Chikungunya outbreak in India, 2008. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 519–527.
Parola P, de Lamballerie X, Jourdan J, Rovery C, Vaillant V, Minodier P, Brouqui P, Flahault A, Raoult D, Charrel RN, 2006. Novel Chikungunya virus variant in travelers returning from Indian Ocean islands. Emerg Infect Dis 12: 1493–1499.
Vega-Rúa A, Zouache K, Girod R, Failloux AB, Lourenço-de-Oliveira R, 2014. High level of vector competence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from ten American countries as a crucial factor in the spread of Chikungunya virus. J Virol 88: 6294–6306.
Leparc-Goffart I, Nougairede A, Cassadou S, Prat C, de Lamballerie X, 2014. Chikungunya in the Americas. Lancet 383: 514.
Van Bortel W, Dorleans F, Rosine J, Blateau A, Rousset D, Matheus S, Leparc-Goffart I, Flusin O, Prat CM, Césaire R, Najioullah F, Ardillon V, Balleydier E, Carvalho L, Lemaítre A, Noël H, Servas V, Six C, Zurbaran M, Léon L, Guinard A, van den Kerkhof J, Henry M, Fanoy E, Braks M, Reimerink J, Swaan C, Georges R, Brooks L, Freedman J, Sudre B, Zeller H, 2014. Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean region, December 2013 to March 2014, and the significance for Europe. Euro Surveill 19: 20759.
Santiago GA, Vergne E, Quiles Y, Cosme J, Vázquez J, Medina JF, Medina F, Colón C, Margolis H, Muñoz-Jordán JL, 2013. Analytical and clinical performance of the CDC real time RT-PCR assay for detection and typing of dengue virus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 7: e23.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2007. Update: Chikungunya fever diagnosed among international travelers–United States, 2006. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 56: 276–277.
Lanciotti RS, Kosoy OL, Laven JJ, Panella AJ, Velez JO, Lambert AJ, Campbell GL, 2007. Chikungunya virus in US travelers returning from India, 2006. Emerg Infect Dis 13: 764–767.
Beaty BJ, Calisher CH, Shope RE, 1995. Arboviruses. Lennete ET, Lennete DA, eds. Diagbostic Procedures for Viral, Rickettsial and Chlamydial Infection, 7th Ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 189–212.
Requena-Méndez A, García C, Aldasoro E, Vicente JA, Martínez MJ, Pérez-Molina JA, Calvo-Cano A, Franco L, Parrón I, Molina A, Ruiz M, Álvarez J, Sánchez-Seco MP, Gascón J, 2014. Cases of Chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning to Spain from Haiti or Dominican Republic, April–June 2014. Euro Surveill 19: 20853.
Cauchemez S, Ledrans M, Poletto C, Quenel P, de Valk H, Colizza V, Boëlle PY, 2014. Local and regional spread of Chikungunya fever in the Americas. Euro Surveill 19: 20854.
Sanchez-Seco MP, Rosario D, Quiroz E, Guzman G, Tenorio A, 2001. A generic nested- RT-PCR followed by sequencing for detection and identification of members of the Alphavirus genus. J Virol Methods 95: 153–161.
Edgar RC, 2004. MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity. BMC Bioinformatics 5: 113.
Tamura K, Stecher G, Peterson D, Filipski A, Kumar S, 2013. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Mol Biol Evol 30: 2725–2729.
PAHO, 2014. Fiebre de Chikungunya en las Americas, 29 de Diciembre de 2014. Available at: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?Itemid=40931.
Borgherini G, Poubeau P, Staikowsky F, Lory M, Le Moullec N, Becquart JP, Wengling C, Michault A, Paganin F, 2007. Outbreak of Chikungunya on Reunion Island: early clinical and laboratory features in 157 adult patients. Clin Infect Dis 44: 1401–1407.
Simon F, Havelle E, Oliver M, Leparc-Goffart I, Marimoutou C, 2011. Chikungunya virus infection. Curr Infect Dis Rep 13: 218–228.
Lanciotti RS, Valadere AM, 2014. Transcontinental movement of Asia genotype Chikungunya virus. Emerg Infect Dis 20: 1400–1402.
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